> it is almost always better for progress for it to move toward commercialization and that is where rapid innovation takes place.
In what context? A capitalist society that's not at war, with limited crime/corruption, with established trade routes where most people are literate and a banking system that's willing to give out loans?
If in that specific context, then probably yes. Do you see how that is an extremely narrow set of circumstances that's subject to change?
This idea of government = less efficient, markets = efficient, is paid for propaganda by American billionaires that's been well documented. I forget the name of the book that goes through this in detail.
It is not to say government = more efficient, markets = less efficient. The world is not that simple and anyone trying to make it out to be, is selling you an ideology that benefits them - check to see if it benefits you to believe in ideas that have insufficient empirical evidence to justify them.
In what context? A capitalist society that's not at war, with limited crime/corruption, with established trade routes where most people are literate and a banking system that's willing to give out loans?
If in that specific context, then probably yes. Do you see how that is an extremely narrow set of circumstances that's subject to change?
This idea of government = less efficient, markets = efficient, is paid for propaganda by American billionaires that's been well documented. I forget the name of the book that goes through this in detail.
It is not to say government = more efficient, markets = less efficient. The world is not that simple and anyone trying to make it out to be, is selling you an ideology that benefits them - check to see if it benefits you to believe in ideas that have insufficient empirical evidence to justify them.